| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 81.34 |
| Liaison | Robert Stroufe |
| Submission Date | Nov. 26, 2018 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Chatham University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.73 / 4.00 |
Mary
Whitney University Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability |
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
150,200.12
MMBtu
Option 1
221.75
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
The Eden Hall campus canopy, field lab, and Dairy Barn Café are combined into a 110 KW photovoltaic system with 408 panels. There are 240 on the canopy, 144 on the field lab, and 24 on the café.
Option 2
61,350
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
All of our hot water is heated by solar thermal sources. We currently have three different solar thermal hot water systems (two on Shadyside campus and one on our Eden Hall campus). The number above is only a small fraction of the total energy produced by our solar hot water; this number only represents the solar hot water system on Fickes (a residence hall on Shadyside Campus).
Option 3
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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Option 4
40,945
MMBtu
A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
We use a Green-e Certified mix from Renewable Choice. We buy in 3-yr contracts, working forward, so we must estimate how much electric we will purchase as well. We generally over-estimate a bit, so that we don't under-buy.
Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Sierra magazine requests the following information from U.S. institutions that wish to share data with that organization:
| Percentage of total electricity use (0-100) | |
| Biomass | 0.60 |
| Coal | 49.80 |
| Geothermal | 0 |
| Hydro | 0.90 |
| Natural gas | 16.70 |
| Nuclear | 27.60 |
| Solar photovoltaic | 0.10 |
| Wind | 3.20 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 1.20 |
A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
from EGrid data 2/2018: oil 0.4, other fossil fuels 0.7, other unknown 0.1
Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
| Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100) | |
| Biomass | 0 |
| Coal | 0 |
| Electricity | 0 |
| Fuel oil | 0 |
| Geothermal | 0 |
| Natural gas | 47 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 53 |
A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Micro-channel solar thermal hot water systems are on our largest residence halls on our Shadyside campus. Sixty-four collectors, covering 1270 square feet, produce 90kw at peak power, with total thermal storage of 2,260 gallons. We produce significantly more energy from these arrays than the number above is portraying, but since our most accurate metering data is on our solar thermal array on Fickes (residence hall on Shadyside), that is the number represented in the space above; please note that this is the data from Fickes alone. We also have solar thermal on Woodland (Another residence hall on Shadyside campus) and at our Eden Hall campus, again, whose energy production is not portrayed in this number.
Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
68.25
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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